Adjunct Instructor, English

Posting Details ================

Position Information -------------------

• Job Title: Adjunct Instructor English
• Classification: FLSA Exempt
• Location: Main Campus
• Position Length: Part-Time

Position Summary ----------------

Adjunct Faculty are professional educators who work on a limited basis and have the primary responsibility of fulfilling the Texas Southmost Colleges TSC mission, vision, values, and goals of providing a quality education for all students enrolled at the College. The relationship of the adjunct faculty member to the student is one of leader, teacher, advisor, and facilitator of learning.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities --------------------------------------

### Categories

• Strive for continual improvement of student success by planning an optimal learning environment, providing high-quality instruction, and advising.
• Manage learning environments by ensuring accurate syllabi are developed, maintaining attendance records, submitting grades, and providing constructive feedback.
• Deliver effective instruction by assuming primary responsibility for curriculum development, ensuring rigor and quality of instruction, and using the Colleges digital learning solution.
• Enhance the students learning experience by integrating concrete, real-life situations into learning experiences, encouraging critical thinking, interdisciplinary skills, and teamwork.
• Collaborate with colleagues across the College in the construction and continuous improvement of measurable learning outcomes.
• Assess student learning by designing assessments that measure or demonstrate student growth.
• Promote continual improvement as part of the cycle of teaching and learning.
• Support TSCs institutional effectiveness program by understanding preparation and evaluations of Student Outcomes Assessment Plans (SOAPs).
• Support learning through student engagement by creating a positive classroom atmosphere that encourages active and collaborative learning.
• Maintain a learning-centered environment by being available to students during the designated work period.
• Support student learning by making students aware of and referring them to the appropriate student and academic support services available at the College.
• Pursue professional development by taking graduate courses or internal classes offered by the College or professional development organizations.
• Participate collegially in discipline-specific activities developed for adjunct faculty.
• Handle sensitive and extensive confidential information.
• Attend the workplace regularly, reports to work punctually, and follows a work schedule to keep up with the demands of the worksite.
• Complete duties and responsibilities in compliance with college standards, policies, and guidelines.
• Promote positive morale and teamwork within the functional unit and provide exceptional customer service to students, faculty, and the community.
• Use interpersonal skills and make sound judgments to decide how duties and responsibilities are completed between coworkers, the supervisory chain, faculty, staff, students, and customers.
• Complete all required training and professional development sessions sponsored by Texas Southmost College (TSC).
• Support the values and institutional goals as defined in the Colleges Strategic Plan.
• Assist with the process for systematic review and evaluation of the planning unit per the model adopted by the College, including the development and monitoring of outcomes and plans of action for improvement based on the assessment of those outcomes and plans.
• Working hours may include evenings, holidays, or weekends depending on deadline requirements and special events.
• Perform duties and responsibilities within a high-tech, all-digital environment.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Required Knowledge and Skills -----------------------------

### To Perform This Job Successfully

• Strong demonstrated commitment to the mission of the community college.
• Strong demonstrated commitment to quality teaching, student success, and student completion.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the academic and instructional functions of the College.
• Demonstrated knowledge of curriculum development, assessment, and revision.
• Demonstrated knowledge in developing and monitoring student learning outcomes and student assessment strategies.
• General knowledge of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.
• Skill in working effectively in a team environment with a customer service focus.
• Ability to use technology in the teaching and learning process.
• Ability to establish and maintain positive and effective working relationships with students, college employees, and the public.
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing, define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions, and effectively present information.
• Demonstrated excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills and ability to work independently.
• Ability to grasp concepts and procedures quickly.
• Strong detail orientation and ability to multi-task with little direct supervision.
• Ability to work under pressure with multiple interruptions and meet deadlines.
• Cooperation, team player in a diverse working environment.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, customer-service-oriented, collaborative team environment.
• Ability to handle sensitive and extensive confidential data.
• Problem-solving skills and the ability to lead, instruct, handle a large variety of details, and work with all levels of the organization.
• Proficient in the use of the Internet to access data, maintain records, generate reports, and communicate with others.

Required Education and Experience ---------------------------------

### To Perform This Job Successfully

• Masters degree or higher in English Literature, Creative Writing, or Rhetoric and Composition, or a Masters degree or higher with eighteen (18) graduate hours in English Literature, Creative Writing, or Rhetoric and Composition from an accredited college or university.
• Preferred Education and Experience:
• Teaching experience in a comprehensive community college setting or at the undergraduate level.
• Experience in enhancing the students learning experience by integrating a variety of methods and strategies into the teaching process and maintaining a learning-centered environment.
• Experience in collaborating with colleagues across the College in the construction and continuous improvement of measurable learning outcomes.

Certificates and Licensures ---------------------------

None required.

Physical Demands -----------------

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, occasionally required to walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls, reach with hands and arms, climb, or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, talk, or hear, and taste or smell.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment -----------------

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works near moving mechanical parts and is occasionally exposed to risk of electrical shock.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Notes ------

• The duties listed are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed.
• The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment to the position.
• The job description does not constitute an employment agreement between the employer and employee and is subject to change by the employer as the needs of the employer and requirements of the job change.

Applicant Documents -------------------

• Required Documents:
• Curriculum Vitae
• Resume
• Cover Letter
• Transcripts
• Technical Education
• Statement of Qualifications
• Optional Documents:
• Letter of Recommendation 1
• Certificates and Licensures
• Transcript 2